Subject: BREAKING: NYT's Krugman: Skeptical Congressmen Guilty of 'Treason Against the Planet!' - Obama's "Climate Astrologer" - Bye, Bye, Jobs! |
From: "Marc Morano-ClimateDepot.com" |
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:31:37 -0400 |
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All Hail the Planet! 'Immorality of
climate-change denial': NYT's Krugman accuses Congressmen who voted against
climate bill of 'treason against the planet!'
Monday, June 29, 2009 - By Marc Morano – Climate Depot
New York Times Columnist
Paul Krugman has charged that Congressmen who do not subscribe to his view of a
man-made global warming "crisis" are guilty of "treason against
the planet." Krugman also rebuked the "irresponsibility and
immorality of climate-change denial." The House of Representatives
narrowly passed the climate bill last week.
"As I
watched the deniers make their arguments, I couldn't help thinking that I was
watching a form of treason — treason against the planet," Krugman wrote in
the New York Times on June 28, 2009. [Editor's Note:
Nice smear Mr. Krugman. Your use of the term "denier" has an
intentional "Holocaust Denial" connotation to it. See: Professor Roger
Pielke, Jr.: 'The phrase 'climate change denier' is meant to be evocative of
the phrase 'holocaust denier' ]
"We're
facing a clear and present danger to our way of life, perhaps even to
civilization itself. How can anyone justify failing to act?" Krugman
explained.
"Yet the
deniers are choosing, willfully, to ignore that threat, placing future
generations of Americans in grave danger, simply because it's in their
political interest to pretend that there's nothing to worry about. If that's
not betrayal, I don't know what is," Krugman wrote. [Editor's Note:
Krugman is a full blown "climate astrologist" -- someone who reads a
prediction of 100 years from now and believes it as fact and irrefutable
evidence of a climate catastrophe. (see Climate Depot report on "Climate
Astrology" here.) Krugman cites the scientifically
ridiculed MIT model predictions as "proof" of a climate crisis. For a
full rebuttal of Krugman's climate model "evidence" see here: Forecast Pioneers:
MIT's unscientific, catastrophic climate forecast: MIT modellers violated 49
principles of forecasting - June 16, 2009 - Also see: Even Computer
Models Now Defying Predictions of Doom! New study 'concludes global average sea
level rise UNLIKELY to exceed one meter by 2100' & U.S. Senate Report:
700 Plus Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Warming Claims - March 2009 ]
Krugman
continued: "Still, is it fair to call climate denial a form of treason?
Isn't it politics as usual? Yes, it is — and that's why it's
unforgivable."
Treason?
Immoral? Unforgivable? What is the punishment for such transgressions Mr.
Krugman?
The answer to
this question is readily available from Krugman's climate fear soul mates.
'Execute'
Skeptics! Krugman's sentiment joined by fellow climate fear promoters
In June 2009, a
public appeal was issued on an influential U.S.
website asking: “At what point do we jail or execute global warming
deniers.” The appeal appeared on Talking Points Memo, an often cited
website that helps set the agenda for the political Left in the U.S.
The Talking
Points Memo article continues: “So when the right wing fucktards have
caused it to be too late to fix the problem, and we start seeing the
devastating consequences and we start seeing end of the World type events - how
will we punish those responsible. It will be too late. So shouldn't we start
punishing them now?" (For full story see: 'Execute' Skeptics!
Shock Call To Action: 'At what point do we jail or execute global warming
deniers' -- 'Shouldn't we start punishing them now?' - June 3, 2009)
After all the
attention drawn to it by Climate Depot, the Talking Points Memo article was later
pulled and the website published a retraction and apology, but the sentiment
was stark and unequivocal and has significant company among climate fear
promoters.
On June 5, 2009,
Joe Romm of Climate Progress defended a posting
on his website warning that climate skeptics would be strangled in bed for rejecting
the view that we face a man-made climate crisis. "An entire generation
will soon be ready to strangle you and your kind while you sleep in your
beds," warned the message posted on Climate Progress.
Romm, a former
Clinton Administration official, pulled the comments after Climate Depot drew
attention to them. "The original was clearly not a threat but a
prediction -- albeit one that I certainly do not agree with. Since some people
misread it, I am editing it," Romm wrote.
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Climate Depot
Editor's Note:
Paul
Krugman's demonization of those skeptical of man-made climate fears and The Talking
Points Memo appeal to execute skeptics is not unique. As the science behind
man-made global warming fears utterly collapses, many of the
biggest promoters of the theory and environmental activists are growing
increasingly desperate. Looming Question: If the promoters of man-made
climate fears truly believed the "debate is over" and the science is
"settled", why is there such a strong impulse to shut down debate and
threaten those who disagree?
Small
sampling of threats, intimidation and censorship:
NASA's
James Hansen has called for trials of climate skeptics in 2008 for "high crimes against
humanity.”
Environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lashed out at skeptics of 2007 declaring
“This is treason. And
we need to start treating them as traitors” In 2009, RFK,
Jr. also called coal companies "criminal
enterprises" and declared CEO's 'should be in jail... for all of
eternity."
In
2006, the eco-magazine Grist called for Nuremberg-Style
trials for skeptics. In 2008,
Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki called for government leaders skeptical
of global warming to be thrown “into jail.” In 2007, The
Weather Channel's climate expert called for withholding
certification of skeptical meteorologists.
A
2008 report found that 'climate blasphemy' is replacing
traditional religious blasphemy. In addition, a July 2007 Senate
report
detailed how skeptical scientists have faced threats and intimidation.
In 2007, then
EPA Chief Vowed to Probe
E-mail Threatening to 'Destroy' Career of Climate Skeptic and dissenters
of warming fears have been called 'Climate Criminals'
who are committing 'Terracide' (killing of Planet Earth) (July 25, 2007)
In addition, in May 2009, Climate Depot Was Banned in Louisiana! See: State official
sought to 'shut down' climate skeptic's testimony at hearing.
Below are many
more examples of the threats, name calling and intimidation skeptics have faced
in recent times.
November 12, 2007:
UN official warns ignoring warming would be 'criminally irresponsible' Excerpt: The
U.N.'s top climate official warned policymakers and scientists trying to hammer
out a landmark report on climate change that ignoring the urgency of global
warming would be "criminally irresponsible." Yvo de Boer's comments
came at the opening of a weeklong conference that will complete a concise guide
on the state of global warming and what can be done to stop the Earth from
overheating.
September
29. 2007: VA State Climatologist skeptical of global warming loses job after
clash with Governor:
'I was told that I could not speak in public' Excerpt: Michaels has argued that
the climate is becoming warmer but that the consequences will not be as dire as
others have predicted. Gov. Kaine had warned. Michaels not to use his official
title in discussing his views. "I resigned as Virginia state climatologist
because I was told that I could not speak in public on my area of expertise,
global warming, as state climatologist," Michaels said in a statement this
week provided by the libertarian Cato Institute, where he has been a fellow
since 1992. "It was impossible to maintain academic freedom with this
speech restriction." (LINK)
Skeptical State
Climatologist in Oregon has title threatened by Governor (February 8,
2007) Excerpt: “[State Climatologist George Taylor] does not believe human
activities are the main cause of global climate change...So the [Oregon]
governor wants to take that title from Taylor and make it a position that he
would appoint. In an exclusive interview with KGW-TV, Governor Ted Kulongoski
confirmed he wants to take that title from Taylor.
Skeptical State
Climatologist in Delaware silenced by Governor (May 2, 2007)
Excerpt: Legates is a state climatologist in Delaware, and he teaches at the
university. He`s not part of the mythical climate consensus. In fact, Legates
believes that we oversimplify climate by just blaming greenhouse gases. One day
he received a letter from the governor, saying his views do not concur with
those of the administration, so if he wants to speak out, it must be as an
individual, not as a state climatologist. So essentially, you can have the
title of state climatologist unless he`s talking about his views on climate?
October
28, 2008: License to dissent:
'Internet should be nationalized as a public utility' to combat global warming
skepticism - Australian Herald Sun - Excerpt: British journalism
lecturer and warming alarmist Alex Lockwood says my blog is a menace to the
planet. Skeptical bloggers like me need bringing into line, and Lockwood tells
a journalism seminar of some options: There is clearly a need for research into
the ways in which climate skepticism online is free to contest scientific fact.
But there is enough here already to put forward some of the ideas in
circulation. One of the founders of the Internet Vint Cerf, and lead for
Google's Internet for Everyone project, made a recent suggestion that the
Internet should be nationalized as a public utility. As tech policy blogger Jim
Harper argues, “giving power over the Internet to well-heeled interests and
self-interested politicians” is, and I quote, “a bad idea.” Or in the UK every
new online publication could be required to register with the recently
announced Internet watchdog...
November
5, 2008: UK Scientist: 'BBC
SHUNNED ME FOR DENYING CLIMATE CHANGE' – UK Daily Express
Excerpt:
FOR YEARS David Bellamy was one of the best known faces on TV. A respected
botanist and the author of 35 books, he had presented around 400 programmes
over the years and was appreciated by audiences for his boundless enthusiasm.
Yet for more than 10 years he has been out of the limelight, shunned by bosses
at the BBC where he made his name, as well as fellow scientists and
environmentalists. His crime? Bellamy says he doesn't believe in man-made
global warming. Here he reveals why – and the price he has paid for not toeing
the orthodox line on climate change.
U.N. official says
it's 'completely immoral' to doubt global warming fears (May 10, 2007)
Excerpt:
UN special climate envoy Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland declared “it's completely
immoral, even, to question” the UN's scientific “consensus."
Gore Refuses to Hear Skeptical Global
Warming Views (Video)
UK environment
secretary David Miliband said 'those who deny [climate change] are the
flat-Earthers of the twenty-first century' (October 6,
2006)
Weather Channel
Climate Expert Calls for Decertifying Global Warming Skeptics (January 17,
2007) Excerpt: The Weather Channel's most prominent climatologist is advocating
that broadcast meteorologists be stripped of their scientific certification if
they express skepticism about predictions of manmade catastrophic global
warming. This latest call to silence skeptics follows a year (2006) in which
skeptics were compared to "Holocaust Deniers" and Nuremberg-style war
crimes trials were advocated by several climate alarmists.
Related
Links:
Skeptic Responds:
'Bring it on...yer nothin but a bunch of Ivory Tower Cowards!'
'Hate sport': 'Simply
lone fanatic?'
'Is it worth taking
another's life?'
Japanese Scientist
compares global warming to 'astrology'
U.S. Senate Report:
700 Plus Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Warming Claims